(11-02-2020, 07:12 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(11-02-2020, 06:34 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: It's more that when you basically work on your own time, people often see that as an invitation to kill their own boredom. 

They pull that move so I stop to be polite and say no thank you. 45 minutes later I'm barely starting. 2 hours later I stop for water. Ohh my uncle just pulled in, and he wants to tell me about the robin he saw in Pacines this morning. 2 more hours later I've got 3 acres done when I should have 15 finished. 

No lie, I dream about putting an automated gate in.

I feel your pain.  I'll be "getting in a groove" working on my homestead splitting wood and my neighbor from a couple of miles up the road will stop by to show me pictures of deer and bears that he got on his wildlife camera.  Soon after he leaves a friend will stop by to show me his gun that he just bought and "shoot a few rounds" on my gun range.  An hour later I might be able to get started again.

Another trivial annoyance is palmetto bushes.  The devil himself introduced those things.  I dug up and burned a good half acre of those things this past weekend.